Category Archives: Mac OS

etc -> private/etc

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Ben Lavery

After delving into Solaris10 a couple of weeks ago, I thought I would explore the hidden regions of my Mac…It turns out that it has many of the same things as a typical UNIX/Linux system, but doesn’t seem to use … Continue reading →

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Icon transparency in OS X

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Ben Lavery

I found out how you make icons transparent! Make them a tiff image! Simple as! EDIT: I will update this with a walkthrough someday…

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Application icons…

Posted on June 1, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Did you know that you can grab the icons for applications, and then save them as a GIF, a JPEG, PNG or even a PDF? If you go to the Applications folder and select the application you want, right (ctrl)click … Continue reading →

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10.5.2 is out!

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Today, 11th February, Apple release the second system update to Leopard. So what did we get?

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Incremental volume

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Ben Lavery

A good friend of mine, Aled Hughes, spoke to me today on msn and was talking to me about a feature he found on Leopard. If you press shift+option+volume (option being ‘alt’), then you can increment/decrement the volume by a … Continue reading →

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2D Dock in Leopard

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Ben Lavery

Have you upgraded to Leopard and decided you really don’t like the new 3D ‘shelf’? Never fear! Apple have given us two options…

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Here’s to the crazy ones…

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Ben Lavery

A fellow Mac User has pointed me to look at TextEdit.app with Coverflow. Blown up it looks like this: “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

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Leopard

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Ben Lavery

The 26th October: about 11am, I received a small box from a man who travelled in an Orange lorry. With great eagerness I signed the form and ripped open the packaging to find a shiny box containing a DVD on … Continue reading →

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